As the months move on, we hardly speak
Your hair turns to grey
And that heart's growing tired and weak
I shoveled the dirt and made a grave for you to sleep in
Because you're dead to me so take your last breath

From the second I awoke to the earth
I was destined to grow without you and suffer
Selfish, reckless and a fiend
You chose that bastard over your family
How can we hope to pick up all the pieces
When you're destroying the ground we stand on?
Those drugs that you crave burned holes
In your brain and paved the path for the life you hate

God damn you for leaving when we needed you
Hell bent on saving only yourself
But that crippling defeat and the cancer you breathe
It finally caught up to you
Now it's plain to see I don't need you in the same old way
I don't need you to be here at all

A thousand miles away from home
But you wouldn't really even know
Mother, tell me where you've been
I can't stand this deafening silence
You don't have the backbone
To face the one's you left for your dead
This is the last time we'll speak so listen closely

I tried to save you but you slipped away
I was once your son
Now you have no part in what I've become
Stranger, you threw it all away for that lesser man
Now you must sleep in the bed you've made
No forgiveness for the things you say
Or the choices that took you away
No fighting for a second chance
The earth will turn and you'll be dead